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Actually, I’ll add one aspect. Most of what I take to completion started off as a prototype, then became the real thing as another phase. Most of the creative rush happens in the prototype, then stops there. I don’t use any actual product of the prototype at all, I start again in another situation. I model what I’m doing on my little maquette dummy prototype scaled down version. Until last year, I was habitually doing the prototype in garageband, then not utilising the result, but simply referring to it.
Now things are different, although I’m not quite sure how they’ll be different.
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Did this way of working come about from the days when home studios were rare and you had to hire studio time to record with quality gear?
Have a passing urgent thought or feeling. Write some words down. If they are enough, good. If not enough, try and imagine the feel of the words with music. Try and make the music.
Yep I think that's what we are all trying to do, make music. Workflows are interesting though, to look at alternate ways to make the process more transparent and less in the way of making the music.
My idea solution would be to have a large room with lots of instruments all hooked up ready to be played. Record would be voice or pedal controlled. So I could just go over to a keyboard shout new track, chorus, 4 count in, record
Compulsions, not just for obsessions anymore.
That's great.
Like many others I can't boil down what I do to a single workflow.
I've come to realize that I'm obsessive about workflow. Coming from a computer environment I've come to expect a workflow that works the same way every time you sit down to make music and where making MIDI and audio connections between "apps" (between plugins and channels on the computer) is straightforward. I've decided that finding this kind of workflow on ios is a pipedream. I've settled on multiple workflows for different tasks.
*Gadget has its own self contained workflow.
**Outside the Gadget ecosystem...
*Record chord progressions - Play chord progressions live in Navichord into Cubasis. Clean up MIDI. Use it to trigger ios synths. Capture audio loops in AUM. Manipulate loops further with effects, Launchpad, etc.
*Record arps and rhythmic synth parts. Trigger synths with MIDI apps like Fugue machine, capture audio loops in AUM. Manipulate loops further with effects, Launchpad, etc.
*Record drums/percussion. Record drum boxes directly into AUM, record loops. Manipulate loops further with effects, Launchpad, etc
*Sketch arrangement on timeline - Bring loops into Multitrack DAW and sequence them. Alternatively at this stage, just take a collection of loops into Ableton Live and sketch the arrangement there.
*Mix/master - Write out stems from Multitrack DAW. Bring in to Ableton Live for mixing and mastering.
Am I the only one working with select few apps for tighter workflow? Interesting.
To me workflow = cut the BS. Go straight to the point which I guess in this case is making music.
I do as well if you read mine.c
% = time using in relation to workflow and / or performance
Instrument 1 : Animoog (85%) / alternative Addictive Synth (15%)
Instrument 2: Samplr (70%) / alternative Geo Shred/Synth / TC (30%)
Utility : Loopy (60%) / Loopersonic (40%) / Group the Loop (30%)
Drums : Patterning/ SeakBeats/ IMaschine (Drums are even 33% each almost)
Recording: Cubasis/Audioshare 100%
I think mine is pretty straightforward too though it looks complicated written out. It's basically record a bunch of loops, sequence them into tracks, mix & master tracks.
For me the focused 'cut the BS' zone is when I just have a mound of different sound files on the PC DAW and am then hacking and slashing, editing multiple tracks together into an album. It is kind of like a documentary where there is a huge pile of source material and footage from different times and places that gets boiled down to a smaller saturated slice in a single editing program. Some people have more of a 'stream of consciousness novel writing' approach but I tend to be a collage guy.
For you guys doing the "record a bunch of loops, sequence them later" approach, do you jam out over the previous loops for subsequent loops or just stay in the same key, tempo and try to do it quickly?
Mine was the Launchpad one........ I am currently batting it and Blocs Wave off of each other...... aiming to arrange it in a DAW in the near future................ usually it is not quite what I am looking for........ then by the time I am finished this (futile) attempt at musical perfection- I get fed up listening to it as it is starting to sound old already- time to brush my teeth.
If I've got a chord progression I will make loops for each chord. If it's a lucky accident loop and hard to reproduce, will use an app to change key.
Usually will produce the loops in the tempo I need. Changing tempo drastically later on can cause problems with some loops.
No, I didn't really read the thread, just saw that option going to 3.6% with 31 votes so I figured I'm the only one but don't quote me my math's shite.
Glad not to be alone in this endeavour
Yeah it's sometimes helps to rest a project after a while - makes it fresh again later....or you completely forget it
Also, I can’t permit myself to use a “loop” (which I take it is a repeated section). Anything that seems repetitive must be done again, even if I can’t tell the difference. I’m not allowed to just copy a section and re-use it elsewhere. Ever.
Obviously there must be exceptions, when I wasn’t careful, but I can’t remember any.
We have made careful note of this preference.
I'm actually pretty similar. For the most part, my iOS usage falls into one of these workflows:
Mostly 1. I usually do everything inside Auria. Sometimes I use GB to sketch, then bounce each track and continue in Auria.
I think that having a loop that can be repeated but still sound interesting is what I am looking for- as Pete Rock once said 'it sounds so good you want to hear it again already'- it is tiresome listening to a plain loop repeat though.
I don't know if I'd glorify my iOS musical ventures with the word 'workflow', mostly because I don't have a lot of go-to apps that require any sort of 'formalities'.
Any/all recording is done in GarageBand; obviously I utilize Audiobus, but I don't put it through anywhere NEAR the paces a lot of you seem to (I've never had more than one app open in AB to record from); my have-to-keep-around apps are MusicStudio, ThumbJam, bs-16i (mostly for dealing with MIDI files, but It has a GM sound bank), and I keep Alchemy around, along with AudioShare.
A lot of the 'workflow' is dictated by the app UI's; I have no hardware peripherals to deal with, and in fact I somewhat abhor the idea of hooking stuff up to this iPhone and ignore what it can already do for me by itself.